 | Leonard Shelford - 1833 - 964 sider
...every source that comes within its reach, whether in reading, conversation, or personal observation. The habit of correct association — that is, connecting...manner in which they tend to illustrate each other, which is one of the principal means of improving the memory. Nearly allied to this, is the habit of... | |
 | 1835 - 330 sider
...facts so received ; avoiding the two extremes of credulity and scepticism. ASSOCIATION AND REFLECTION. IV. The habit of correct association ; that is, connecting...in which they tend to illustrate each other. This is one of the principal means of improving the memory ; particularly of the kind of memory which is... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1838 - 484 sider
...amid.visions and fictions unworthy of a waking man. III. The cultivation of an active inquiring state of U mind, which seeks for information from every source...principal means of improving the memory, particularly the kind of memory which is an essential quality of a cultivated mind, namely, that which is founded,... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 sider
...the authenticity of facts so received; avoiding the two extremes of credulity and skepticism. 4th, The habit of correct association ; that is, connecting...in which they tend to illustrate each other. This is one of the principal means of improving the memory ; particularly of the kind of memory which is... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1851 - 308 sider
...inquiring state of mind which seeks for information from every source that comes within its reacE, whether in reading, conversation, or personal observation....have formerly seen, is one of the principal means of improving-the memory ; particularly of the kind of memory which is an essential quality of a cultivated... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1859 - 292 sider
...whether in reading, conversation, or personal observation. With this state of mental activity ought to he closely connected attention to the authenticity of...essential quality of a cultivated mind ; namely, that whi^h is founded not upon incidental connections, but on true and important relations. Nearly allied... | |
 | David Kay - 1888 - 388 sider
...the utmost importance that all the ideas that most nearly resemble each other be in one bundle. 1 " The habit of correct association. — that is, connecting...manner in which they tend to illustrate each other ... is one of the principal means of improving the memory, particularly that kind of memory which is... | |
 | David Kay - 1888 - 374 sider
...the utmost importance that all the ideas that most nearly resemble each other be in one bundle. 1 " The habit of correct association — that is, connecting...manner in which they tend to illustrate each other ... is one of the principal means of improving the memory, particularly that kind of memory which is... | |
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This, as we have formerly seen, is one of the principal means of improving the memory; particularly of the kind of memory which is an essential quality of a cultivated mind; namely, that which is founded, not upon incidental connections, but on true and... 